Or technically, two, since the group bridge also does the same loop. We
no longer need special handling for VST2 and VST3 plugins, so we can
simplify things a bit here.
It sort of goes against yabridge's principles to not do these
unnecessary `audioMasterGetTime()` calls if the plugin does that, but it
also hurts the user experience to not have this as a default.
We'll periodically copy the scheduling priorities from the host's audio
threads to the Wine plugin host's audio threads. The overhead of doing
this is about 1 microsecond on my system, so doing this every cycle
really adds up. But getting the Unix epoch time and comparing some
timestamps has a neglegible overhead, so this should give you the best
of both worlds.
Next we'll do the same thing for VST3 plugins.
As suggested by @jhernberg
It's pretty hard to find a solution that checks all of the boxes. I want
something that:
- Closes instantly when you close the editor, and in REAPER you should
be able to instantly switch between docked and floating modes
- Where there should not be a delay in user interaction when quickly
reopening the editor (or doing that switching thing in REAPER since that's
the same thing)
- Where the window manager should not try to reparent the window during
the losing process as that can cause some jarring flickering
- And, of course, there should be no weird Wine X11Drv crashes
And it should do all of that in Bitwig, REAPER, Carla, Ardour and
Renoise. Apparently it's quite the task to find an approach that checks
all the boxes there.
This also changes the refresh rate for most plugins. You can now lower
this setting if your computer is struggling to keep up with rendering a
certain heavy plugin.
This fixes EZdrummer not producing any sound, as the plugin presumably
schedules some task on the Win32 message loop to load its resources,
which won't happen if this is run from any other thread.
Although it hasn't shown up, this will get rid of the possibility of
off-thread effEditIdle calls causing issues. And since we need some way
to run call this function while the event loop is running anyways, doing
it entirely from a timer similar to how hosts on Windows would do it
seems like the best solution.
Since it does something way more involved than
`SocketHandler::{send,receive_multi}`, and that makes it a bit confusing
if you don't already know about that (and even if you do).
This will require more testing of course, but I think it should be safe.
This would increase the potential maximal throughput in group hosts
significantly.
When the message loop is active and we get an incoming dispatch() event,
we'll just handle it directly. In practice this would only be needed
when the event is a response to an `audioMaster()` call made during the
event loop, but we can't know that. This allows the `getProgram()`
during `audioMasterUpdateDisplay()` in REAPER and Renoise to work
correctly. Hopefully this doesn't cause random rare breakage.
On the Wine side we want to handle most events on the main UI thread.
We'll assume any events coming in from a secondary socket are safe and
can be handled directly.
This is a pretty huge change that will be important for being able to
handle nested or mutually recursive `dispatch()` and `audioMaster()`
calls. This sadly all had to be done in a single commit, so here's a
summary:
- `src/common/sockets.h:Sockets` contains all sockets on both the plugin
and the Wine host side, and is used to both listen on and connect to
the sockets.
- Sockets and other temporary files respect `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` instead
of being dumped in `/tmp`.
- All sockets now have a unique endpoint in
`/run/user/<uid>/yabridge-<plugin_name>-<random_id>/`. This is
important for when we want to have multiple socket connections for
handling `dispatch()` and `audioMaster()`.
- Because of the above, we no longer clean up the socket endpoint files
after the connection gets established during initialization. Instead
we'll remove the socket base directory when shutting down.
This is not ideal since it requires the user to know about this option
and to create a config file, but I think it's the best we can do without
compromising on yabridge's transparency and 'zero hacks' philosophy.
See #29 and #32.
This works around Waves plugins causing an infinite message loop. Since
we run the loop 30 times per second anyways splitting the loop up into
chunks of 20 shouldn't be an issue.
This sounds like it would the simplest way to work around the issue of
E27 calculating its own coordinates based on the parent window's
coordinates. I have not noticed any weird issues with having this
enabled all the time, but less moving parts is always better so it's
still behind an option.
Robbert van der Helm